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Published October 30, 2014
Oct. 29, 2014: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the 'Washington Ideas Forum' in Washington.(AP)
Attorney General Eric Holder says he has one regret: his department's court order for Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails labeling him a criminal "co-conspirator."
The outgoing attorney general, who recently announced his retirement, addressed the controversial episode during the "Washington Ideas Forum" on Wednesday. Asked what decision he wishes he could do over, Holder said: "I think about the subpoena to the Fox reporter, Rosen."
Holder was referring to a 2010 search warrant application seeking Rosen's emails. The Justice Department at the time was investigating who leaked information contained in a series of reports by Rosen in 2009 about North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
In the course of seeking Rosen's emails, an FBI agent submitted an affidavit claiming there was evidence that Rosen broke the law, "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." The affidavit went so far as to invoke the Espionage Act -- pertaining to the unauthorized gathering and transmitting of defense information.
On Wednesday, Holder said that application could have been done "differently" and "better."
"I think that I could have been a little more careful looking at the language that was contained in the filing that we made with the court -- that he was labeled as a co-conspirator," Holder said, while claiming they did that "as a result of the statute."
Rosen, who serves as chief Washington correspondent for Fox News, said in response that the attorney general's comments "scarcely address" his role in the case.
"Throughout this ordeal for my family and me, I have tried to keep my head down and continue covering -- and breaking -- the news. I consider myself blessed to have an employer in Fox News, and a boss in Roger Ailes, who have stood by me and enabled me to remain focused on what matters most to me in professional terms: first-rate journalism," Rosen said in a statement. "At some later point, I may have more to say about this entire controversy, which -- as commentators from across the ideological spectrum have noted -- does indeed raise serious concerns about the state of press freedoms under the present administration. Suffice to say for now that the attorney general's latest comments about my case, like his previous remarks, scarcely address the relevant facts of his conduct."
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Former vice president Dick Cheney in 2007. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder thinks that of the current hit television shows about Washington, theone that gets this town mostly right is, depending on the administration, Id say House of Cards. (Yes, that would be the one with murder, adultery, drug addicts )
Holder, speaking Wednesday at a WashingtonIdeas Forum moderated by our colleague, Jonathan Capehart, added: There was a pretty bad vice president in House of Cards, but Ill leave it at that. As the audience laughed, he noted, AndI like Joe Biden, so Im not talking about him.
I know who youre talking about, Capehart said. Our money is on former vice president Dick Cheney. (Unless he was maybe talking about Al Gore or John Nance Garner? )
Asked about his guilty pleasure, Holder said: I like to binge watch not-too-serious televisionlike Boardwalk Empire Im going to be working on that pretty soon Homeland, these are the things I just like to sit down and, you know, just go for many hours.
Where does he find the time? Hillary Clinton also admitted to binge watching House of Cards, but she did so after she was secretary of state and suddenly found herself with time on her hands.
Other light-hearted questions, which came at the end after a series of serious topics, included who Holder would want to play him in a movie.
Theres only one person, Holder quickly answered: Denzel. (Has anyone ever answered that question and not picked a good-looking A-lister?)
Capehart also asked Holder, who has been a Republican target over numerous White House scandals, what he hopes to be remembered for.
As a person who . . . used the power of his office to raiseissues that too often were not addressed, Holder said, And who ultimately moved the country in a direction that it should always move. A country that I left maybe a little more fair, with a greater sense of the urgency to make sure that all people are treated equally.
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